Carnegie Mellon Students Win National Prize for Freedom of Speech Simulation Game

A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) took home the Best Student-Developed Game award at a national competition for “Speak Your Heart,” an interactive game exploring freedom of speech and academic freedom on a college campus.

It started out with six students — Jack Chou, Kailun Deng, Lutong He, Jiwon Park, Enn Ruan and Moe Aguilar — coming together for one of the ETC’s project courses with teaching professors Ralph Vituccio and Brenda Harger acting as advisors.

“This group took a challenging topic — freedom of speech — and transformed it into an engaging, entertaining and genuinely educational interactive experience,” said Vituccio, who also has an appointment in the Department of English.

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